Sauron is a powerful asset to many MTG decks, but only with the right tools
Unless your opponent is ready for it, you'll always be able to manifest dread at least once since it happens at the start of your upkeep
Meanwhile, we have budget versions of cards like Heroic Intervention and Thousand-Year Elixir readily available
There's no greater feeling of helplessness in Magic than being without any cards in hand, and being able to make your opponent discard a full hand for just eight mana is very powerful
As I mentioned before, things are more complicated than this when you consider cantrips, card advantage, and such, but this should give you a good start for making sure you have the right number of lands in your deck
And just to get ahead of all the well actuallys, B.F.M